Past Events

Joyce Evans Celebration

20 May 2019

MGA will be hosting a celebration of Joyce Evans

Monday 20 May, 5.30-9.30pm

Vale Joyce Evans

MGA is very sad to hear of the loss of Joyce Evans. Joyce was a regular face at MGA, always a supportive visitor at exhibition openings and special events. Joyce was also a highly regarded artist with many of her photographs from the early 1980s–2000s held in the MGA Collection. Joyce was also Assistant Director in the inaugural staff at Waverley City Gallery (now Monash Gallery of Art) from 1990-1991.

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Joyce Evans (1929–2019) was a key figure of Australian photography in the late twentieth century. Evans’s initial contribution was as an advocate for the medium. She established Church Street Photographic Centre in 1976, encouraging a broad interest in photography and assisting the careers of many Australian photographers. At Church Street, Evans also introduced audiences to the work of key figures in International photography. The gallery closed in 1982. Evans decided to become a photographer before she opened Church Street, but it was in the early 1980s that she began to focus more productively on her own practice.